Mississippi attorney general rules fatal police shooting of one-year-old as ‘justified’
Officers responding to an alleged shoplifting call fired into the vehicle of Vellesiya Wiley, killing her son, Kohen On Monday, the office of the…
The Guardian reports: Officers responding to an alleged shoplifting call fired into the vehicle of Vellesiya Wiley, killing her son, Kohen On Monday, the office of the Mississippi attorney general, Lynn Fitch, announced that the police shooting of Kohen Wiley, a one-year-old, as he sat in his mother’s lap “was justified”.
The statement came four months after the baby was killed in Senatobia, Mississippi.
This world story centres on the United Kingdom. Names and organisations mentioned in the coverage include Vellesiya Wiley, Mississippi and Senatobia.
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- Vellesiya Wiley, Mississippi, Senatobia, Kohen On Monday
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- On 14 June, officers in Senatobia, a small city near Memphis, were responding to a shoplifting call alleging Vellesiya Wiley, the baby’s mother, and Latoya Ferrell, a friend, had stolen a pack of… (The Guardian)
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